Top plate for stoves.



No. 7|5,945. Patented Dec. I6, 1902.

c. L. BEACH. TOP-PLATE FOR STOVES.

(Application filed Apr. 1B, 1902.) (No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES LEONARD BEACH, OF ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN.

TOP PLATE FOR STOVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 715.945, dated December 16, 1902.

Application filed April 16, 1902.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES LEONARD BEACH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ann Arbor, in the county of Washtenaw and State of Michigan, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Top Plates for Stoves; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to Which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to top plates for all kinds of cooking-stoves, more particularly gas-stoves; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of the parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View of the top plate. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the top plate and a heating vessel.

A is the top plate, which is hollow, forming a watei chamber B. A small outlet-hole b for steam is formed in the top of the chamber B.

C is a fire-tube which extends vertically through the chamber B.

The top plate A may be built into the top portion of a stove, or it may be placed on the top of a stove as commonly used for cooking by gas, with the fire-tube C over the stoveburner.

D is aheating vessel, such as a steam-cooker or a coffee-heater. This vessel D is provided with a steam-chamber d, and d is a conical nozzle which projects from the bottom of the vessel D. The nozzle d communicates with the chamber B of the top plate and with the chamber d of the heating vessel, and it fits steam-tight in the hole 6 when the heating vessel is placed in position.

A frying-pan can be heated over the open upper end of the fire-tube, and the same burner which heats it also heats the water placed in the chamber B, so that the heating vessel D is supplied with steam. More than one heating vessel can be used if the top plate Serial No. 103,192. (No model.)

is made larger and provided with additional outlet-holes for the steam generated inside it. The water-chamber B is divided into compartments of different depth.

E is the shallower compartment around the fire-tube C, and e is the deeper compartment, which projects above the top of the compartment E, the bottom I) of the water-chamber B being flat. The compartment eis also Wider than the compartment E. The water fills the shallow compartment E and is in contact with its top. In this manner the water is heated very rapidly and is forced to circulate away from the fire-tube into the compartment 6. When provision is made for heating more than one vessel, such as D, a second deep compartment 8', similar to the compartment 2, is arranged on the opposite side of the shallow compartment E from the said compartment 6, and its steam-outlet hole is closed by a plug g when the second vessel is not in use.

What I claim is- 1. A hollow top plate for a stove, having a fiat bottom and comprising compartments of unequal depth, the shallower compartment having a'vertical fire-tube extending through its Water-space, and the deeper compartment having a steam-outlet hole in its top above its water-space,substantially as set forth.

2. A hollow top plate for a stove, having a fiat bottom and comprising compartments of unequal depth, the shallower compartment having a vertical fire-tube extending through its water-space, and the deeper compartments being wider than the aforesaid compartment and arranged on opposite sides of it and provided with steam-outlet holes in their top portions, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHAS. LEONARD BEACH.

Witnesses:

CARL T. STORM, EMMETT Coon. 

